COMBATIVS

By Director Al Collins According to Statistics Canada, there has been an average of 289,500 home invasions annually over the last 5 years. 1 out of every 5 homes will experience a home break-in or home invasion. Statistically, there are over 8,000 home invasions every day in North America. According to the US Department of

By Director Al Collins Terrorist attacks in public places are increasing every year. Attacks have taken place in restaurants; malls; concert, movie, nightclub and sports venues; schools; churches; in hotels; subways; airports; on the beach and the street. Home and workplace events, we’ll discuss separately another time. There really isn’t a place that would be

By Director Al Collins Many would wrongly think, that martial arts is violent. Actually, most martial arts training is geared towards fitness and fairness. Rules exist in martial arts on avoidance of prime targets, referees, pulled strikes, tapping out, and even wrong techniques, training people to be ineffective, against real attackers. Predators don’t work under

By Director Al Collins Mr. Spock’s Vulcan nerve pinch worked for him quite well against opponents, but does attacking specific pressure and nerve points really work? Yes and no. First, there’s a lot of confusion on what the difference between the two are. A pressure point is a location on the body that when pressed

By Director Al Collins The best all-around tool to defend yourself and also able to feed your family in a survival situation, is the shotgun. Speaking from many decades of experience with shotguns, rifles and handguns, the shotgun is the king. Let’s consider the alternatives. In a life or death situation, the handgun’s single grip

By Director Al Collins George St. Pierre, the UFC champion, confesses that he and other MMA fighters got beat by an out of shape, alcoholic smoker! You can hear him say this during an interview here… This refreshing honesty from such a champion, puts a torpedo in all the martial arts and MMA doctrines, that

By Director Al Collins One of the main counter-productive features of MMA, martial arts and self-defense programs, is their training attention to inflicting pain rather than injury. Injury means the attackers are crippled… you broke something. Such as the knee break in the picture. When you’re training teaches you to inflict pain, block, defect, punch

By Director Al Collins “In 2008, a knife was used against 6% of all victims of a violent crime. Included in this category are other cutting instruments such as broken bottles, screwdrivers or scissors. In comparison, 3% of violent crimes were committed with a club or blunt instrument and 2% with a firearm. When looking only

By Director Al Collins Scenario #1: You’re on vacation with your family. You all walk out of a restaurant, turn the corner and there’s a group of five guys there. One sucker punches you as you’re walking by. As you start to come around, they’re in the midst of raping your companion. One is pointing

By Director Al Collins An active shooter is typically defined as an individual or individuals who are actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in public places such as schools, workplaces, shopping malls, restaurants, entertainment venues (sports arenas, theaters) and the streets. In most cases, active shooters use a firearm(s) and display no pattern or method for

About COMBATIVS

COMBATIVS, as part of its program, reveals a vital skillset, that 21st Century militaries teach to their elite Special Operations Forces to make them more formidable, with statistics showing… not only a huge success rate... but results showing up to a 50X greater impact in battle! Martial arts don't teach this!